Suit charges Sony breach caused by poor security
Sony has been hit with what could be the first of many lawsuits related to a recently disclosed breach of its PlayStation Network . Kristopher Johns of Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Sony in federal court in San Francisco, alleging negligent data security practices, privacy violations and breach of warranty.
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Google gains allies in the war over HTML5 video formats
When I last talked about the Battle of the Video Format Titans -- the epic struggle between H.264 and WebM formats, particularly as they'll appear in conjunction with HTML5 -- I offered
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BMC buys app performance vendor Coradiant
BMC has purchased Coradiant, maker of software for improving end-user experience and tracking Web application performance, the company said Thursday. Terms were not disclosed. The deal will give BMC "the industry's most comprehensive solution for anticipating and proactively addressing the end-user experience requirements of our customers' businesses," said Paul Avenant, senior vice president, ESM solutions and brand management, in a statement.
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Verizon finds cause of LTE outage
Verizon Wireless has determined the cause of an outage that crippled its LTE mobile data network starting late Tuesday and it is working to solve the problem, but the carrier has not estimated when the system will be restored.
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Intel eyes post-Thunderbolt interconnect technology
A new interconnect technology being developed by Intel could be ready for use by 2015 and will be able to shuttle data between computers at up to five times the speed of its recently launched Thunderbolt technology, an Intel researcher said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft app analyzes busy schedules
In an effort to demonstrate the versatility of its PowerPivot business intelligence technology, Microsoft has released a free add-on application to Microsoft Office that analyzes the contents of a user's Microsoft Exchange calendar. This Calendar Analytics Tool can aggregate and analyze the meeting data that resides in a user's Microsoft Exchange Schedule.
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Google patches 27 Chrome bugs, pays out record bounties
Google today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it boosted the "stable" build of the browser to version 11 on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The company paid out a record $16,500 in bounties to researchers who reported a majority of the bugs, beating the previous biggest payday by several hundred dollars.
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Do benchmarks really measure a browser's speed?
InfoWorld's Peter Wayner has published his head-to-head Web browser battle roundup, comparing Google Chrome 10, Mozilla Firefox 4, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, Apple Safari 5,
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Attachmate eyes cloud customers for Suse
Having closed its $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell, Attachmate now is eyeing cloud service providers as potential customers for the company's newly acquired Suse Linux platform. The company also plans to continue promoting Suse for deployment on mainframes and as a Unix replacement.
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Is Oracle hedging its vulnerability reports?
Oracle may be subtly misleading customers about the severity of some of the vulnerabilities found in its database software, according to researchers from database security software provider Application Security (AppSec). "Oracle likes to downplay the risk of its vulnerabilities," said Alex Rothacker, director of security research for AppSec. As a result, organizations using Oracle's vulnerability ratings to prioritize system updates may unduly delay applying some critical patches, he said.
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